camp snowmass CENTRAL ARUNACHAL S TRIBAL GROUPS The variety of tribal peoples in central Arunachal Pradesh is asto

CENTRAL ARUNACHAL S TRIBAL GROUPS The variety of tribal peoples in central Arunachal Pradesh is astonishing, but although the Adi (Abor), Nishi, Tajin, camp snowmass Hill Miri and various camp snowmass other Tibeto-Burman tribes consider themselves different from one another most are at least distantly related. Over the last few decades Christian missionaries have been highly active throughout the Northeast and in the process have brought huge changes to the region s traditional cultures, religious camp snowmass beliefs and ways of life. Despite this, some aspects of the traditional camp snowmass lifestyle are just about holding on and many people camp snowmass continue to practise the traditional religion of Donyi-Polo (sun and moon) worship camp snowmass sometimes at the same time as proclaiming themselves Christian. camp snowmass For ceremonial occasions, village chiefs typically wear scarlet shawls and a bamboo wicker hat spiked with porcupine quill or hornbill feathers. A few old men still wear their hair long, tied around to form a topknot above their foreheads. Women favour hand-woven wraparounds like Southeast Asian sarongs. House designs vary somewhat. Traditional Adi villages are generally camp snowmass the most photogenic with luxuriant palmyra-leaf thatching and boxlike granaries stilted to deter rodents.

Air India (%2264420, Ganeshguri), IndiGo Airlines, Jet Airways (%2633252; Tayebullah Rd), Kingfisher and SpiceJet fly to Guwahati from most major Indian cities (often with a stopover in Kolkata). Getting into town from Guwahati s orderly Lok-Priya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport costs 500/100/70 for taxi/shared taxi/airport bus.

Carved out of Assam in 1972, hilly Meghalaya (Abode of Clouds) is a cool, pine-fresh contrast to the sweaty Assam plains. Set on dramatic camp snowmass horseshoes of rocky cliff above the Bengal plains, Cherrapunjee camp snowmass and Mawsynram are statistically the wettest places on earth. Most of the rain falls between April and September, creating very impressive camp snowmass waterfalls and carving out some of Asia s longest camp snowmass caves.